What is WikiEducator?

WikiEducator is a great resource to utilize in the classroom along with using Wikipedia.

WikEducator was established in 2006. WikiEducator is free and all that is needed to utilize this resource is to register for a free account. WikiEducator is, "a dynamic and exciting community of educators who believe passionately that learning materials should be free and open to all" (2017). WikiEducator is seen as, "an evolving community intended for the collaborative.." planning, development, open education resources, and networking (2017).

How was WikiEducator created?

WikiEducator went through three different phases starting in 2006 and ended in 2015. Due to the increase use of WikiEducator over the past three months, the site is being remodeled in order for the people using the site to navigate their way more easily and find what they are looking for more quickly. Sir John Daniel, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Commonwealth of Learning was the founding Patron of WikiEducator.


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How is WikiEducator Used?

WikiEducator is a free website that includes free educational content that educators can can create, modify, distribute.

WikiEducator has many different uses:

• Free Content development -these are the actual content pages
  • Pages that make up OER courses
• Planning pages for projects developing free educational content
• Community Network nodes which facilitate a range of free content activitiesAlegra- Matrices
• Research projects hosted by WikiEducator (2017)

Example Pages of WikiEducator

Civil Right Movement
Lord of the Flies
Biology in Elementary Schools

Sources Used
Main Page. (2017.). Retrieved March 24, 2018, from http://wikieducator.org/Main_Page